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Oregon implemented the strictest landfill gas emissions rule in the nation in 2021. But a report from Beyond Toxics argues exemptions have allowed private operators to avoid monitoring large areas.

Oregon’s corporate-owned landfills are using a loophole in state law to avoid methane monitoring on an average of about half of their operating surfaces, a new study concludes.

Environment experts from several agencies across Oregon are emphasizing the importance of state funding ahead of the 2025 legislative session.

A critical waste disposal facility in Oregon shut down at the end of December, leaving law enforcement agencies and hospitals across the state scrambling for alternatives to dispose of evidence that is no longer needed.

For more than 30 years, Portland police officers have packed up the rocks of confiscated crystal meth, baggies of weed and blocks of powdered fentanyl and made the 38-mile trek to Marion County. There, Oregon’s only municipal waste incinerator has burned them to generate power, a crucial step in ensuring the drugs do no more…

On Jan. 16, after months of protest from local residents and environmental advocates, the city of Eugene denied a zoning application for a biofuel transfer station in Eugene’s Trainsong Neighborhood.